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What is in the Collection?
This collection includes civil marriage records created in Pennsylvania counties for the years 1885 to 1950. The records include registers, affidavits and marriage licenses. In some instances, divorce records are recorded with marriages.
As of 2009, no marriage records are included for the following counties:
- Centre
- Lycoming
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- Union counties
- Lackawanna (before 1926)
No records are included for the city of Philadelphia and Philadelphia County. They are available as a separate collection.
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This collection was published as a DGS browse collection. These collections do not include any human-readable waypoint data making them difficult to use. A table showing each DGS number and its contents can be found in Pennsylvania, County Marriages Digital Folder Number List. The list can be sorted by DGS number, GS number, county, author, title, and film note.
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The following information may be found on a marriage license that was recorded between 1885 and 1913:
- Full names of the bride and groom
- Date and place of marriage
- Current residence(s) of the bride and groom
- Age, race, occupation and nativity of bride and groom
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- Names of parents
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- Name of person performing the ceremony
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- Birthplaces of the father and mother
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- Use the birth date or age along with the place of birth to find the family in census records.
- Use the residence and names of the parents to locate church and land records.
- The name of the officiator is a clue to their religion or area of residence in the county. However, ministers may have reported marriages performed in other counties.
- Compile the marriage entries for every person who has the same surname as the bride or groom; this is especially helpful in rural areas or if the surname is unusual.
- Continue to search the marriage records to identify children, siblings, parents, and other relatives of the bride and groom who may have married in the same county or nearby. This can help you identify other generations of your family or even the second marriage of a parent. Repeat this process for each new generation you identify.
- Use the marriage number to identify previous marriages.
- When looking for a person who had a common name, look at all the entries for the name before deciding which is correct.
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Marriages were recorded to legalize marital relationships and to safeguard the interests of the wife and other heirs. The most reliable information is the date and place of the marriage and license date. Other information is dependent upon the reliability of the informant.
On January 12, 1852, the Pennsylvania Legislature enacted its first statewide law requiring the registration of vital records, including marriages. Probably due to lack of compliance, the law was repealed in 1855.
On October 1, 1885, a new law went into effect that made it illegal for any "minister of the gospel, justice of the peace, or other officers, or persons authorized by law to solemnize marriages" to marry any couple who did not first obtain a marriage license. Since then, marriage licenses have been recorded without interruption with the Clerk of the Orphans' Court within each county.
Before 1885, marriage records created by ministers, justices of the peace, and larger cities may still be kept by the originator, but the bulk of the marriages recorded in Pennsylvania are in this collection.
Counties in the state generally achieved 90 percent compliance by 1915.
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Tiffany L. Warren, is an author, playwright, songwriter, mother and wife. Her debut novel What a Sista Should Do, was released in June of 2005 and has ministered to over 50,000 readers. Her second book, Farther than I Meant to Go, Longer than I Meant to Stay was a national bestseller. In 2006, Tiffany and her husband, Brent, founded Warren Productions and released their first gospel musical. What a Sista Should Do - The Stage Play debuted in Cleveland, OH at the famed Allen Theatre.
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This novel starts with Charmayne breaking glasses and windows in her home. The tinkling sound of glass breaking soothes her frazzled soul. It also scares her neighbors who call for help and Charmayne ends up in the psych ward and subsequently on the couch of Dr. Rayna King. At this point, Charmayne relives the past to tell how she got to the present. Starting with her overly critical mother, perfect sister, seemingly supportive or non-supportive friends to Travis Moon and her down from grace..
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Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, express check-out, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Planning an event in West Sacramento? This hotel has facilities measuring 600 square feet (56 square meters), including a meeting room. Free self parking is available onsite.
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I have to say that this time round, the first things I thought of when I found out I was pregnant, was: how will my son cope with the news? Will he be happy? Does he want a sibling? Will he be jealous?
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I hope that his enthusiasm continues after the baby is born, though I am sure it will be a shock for him how much of mummy's time is taken up with the baby. Hopefully he will not get too jealous.
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Starting Monday 8/1/16 the first phase of paving Bascom Road begins. Reclamation, regrading then paving will happen before moving on to other end of road. Bascom Rd will remain open during these functions but expect delays or temporary closure at any time.
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Winds of change blow strong in Cuban colleges
Many regard Cuba's success in making education accessible and socially useful to have been a prime achievement of the Cuban Revolution.
Cuba's new, experimental urban cooperatives
The plan is to develop 222 urban cooperatives throughout the island: food service ventures, agricultural markets, technical and personal services, fisheries, and water management services.
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From Facebook's "on this day" feature to Snapchat's Memories, social networks want to remind us of the past. But why?
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The Cathedral Catholic Dons baseball team won Friday's home conference game against Point Loma by a score of 8-0.
(April 20, 2012: San Diego, CA 92130) Cathedral Catholic Dons (San Diego, CA) fans exited the stadium thrilled Friday as they observed their baseball squad overcome the visiting Point Loma Pointers (San Diego, CA), 8-0 in a league test.
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Ba set to join Chelsea after Newcastle striker is given permission to speak to club
Newcastle United striker Demba Ba has been given permission to talk to Chelsea after the European champions became the first to invoke the Senegal international's £7.5million release clause.
As a result, Ba has been withdrawn from Newcastle's squad to face Everton at St James's Park tonight.
Away: Demba Ba looks set to join Chelsea after being given permission to speak to the Stamford Bridge club
Although a deal for Ba has not been finalised, Newcastle manager Alan Pardew has no doubt it will be shortly.
'It's done, he will go to Chelsea with our blessing,' Pardew told Sky Sports 1 before kick-off against Everton. 'He has done fantastically for us, it's a big club, good luck to him.
'For us, it's not a bad thing because of all the uncertainty of whether he was going to stay is now done. We can move on, we're a massive club here. This club is bigger than any player for sure.
'In some respects, I'm pleased.'
Pardew had been prepared to play his 27-year-old top scorer amid increasing uncertainty over his Newcastle future.
But Chelsea, who held talks with the
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to release him from the Newcastle contract he signed when he joined on a
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Main man: Ba has been in fine form for Newcastle, scoring 13 goals in a struggling side this season
A club statement said: 'Newcastle United can confirm that Chelsea Football Club has made an official offer for Demba Ba which has triggered the release clause in the player's contract.
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Get shirty: An image quickly circulated on Twitter of a Chelsea shirt being printed with 'Ba'
One Blues fan has already celebrated the potential switch to Stamford Bridge, getting the striker's name printed on the back of a Chelsea shirt. The move echoed the one done by the club in 2008 when they published images of a Robinho shirt on their website before the Brazilian joined Manchester City.
Chelsea's move could also spark copy-cat bids from Arsenal and Tottenham who are also interested in the Paris-born Senegal forward.
Wave goodbye: Ba looks set to bid farewell to Tyneside and move south to London
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Their chief scout Graham Carr has also targeted Ajax's Dutch international Jody Lukoki who can play upfront and on the right flank where Cisse has spent most of this season.
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Marianne de Chastelaine, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for Vital Longevity
1600 Viceroy Drive Suite 832
Dallas, TX 75235
tel: 972-883-3780
fax: 972-883-3250
Academic Summary
Ph.D. with ten years experience investigating cognitive processes and their neural correlates associated with episodic memory encoding and retrieval. Extensive use of ERPs and fMRI to investigate these cognitive processes in different age groups: children (ages 9-10 years), adolescents (13-14 years), young adults (18-30 years) and older adults (age > 60 years).
Academic Training
Ph.D. in Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience), University College London.
Thesis title: The influence of retrieval strategies on event-related potential correlates of recognition memory.
Supervisors: Mick Rugg, Ph.D. and Chris Brewin, Ph.D.
M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuropsychology (Distinction), Birkbeck College, London.
Project title: Facilitated forgetting in repressors: Mechanisms of retrieval inhibition, ironic facilitation and biases for emotionally valent material as measured by implicit and explicit tests of memory.
Supervisor: Marius Usher, Ph.D.
B.Sc. (Hons) in Psychology (First Class), London Guildhall University.
Project title: Contributions of sex, self-perceived gender identity and diurnal changes in circulating testosterone concentration on cognitive patterns.
Supervisor: Geoff Sanders, Ph.D.
Academic Appointments
Research Associate, Center for Vital Longevity, UTD, Dallas, TX, US.
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Irvine, CA, US.
Research Scientist, Cognitive Electrophysiological Laboratory, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, US.
Assistant Examiner, UCL, Department of Psychology, London, UK.
Teaching Assistant, UCL, Department of Psychology, London, UK.
Research Assistant, London Guildhall University, Department of Psychology, London, UK
de Chastelaine, M., & Rugg, M.D. (in press). The effects of study task on prestimulus subsequent memory effects in the hippocampus. Hippocampus. doi: 10.1002/hipo.22489.
King, D.R., de Chastelaine, M., Elward, R.L., Wang, T.H., & Rugg, M.D. (2015). Recollection-related increases in functional connecivity predict individual differences in memory accuracy. Journal of Neuroscience.
Wang, T.H., Johnson, J.D., de Chastelaine, M., Donley, B.E., & Rugg, M.D. (2015). The effects of age on the neural correlates of recollection success, recollection-related cortical reinstatement, and post-retrieval monitoring. Cerebral Cortex.
Addante, R.J., de Chastelaine, M., & Rugg, M.D. (2015). Pre-stimulus neural activity predicts successful encoding of inter-item associations. Neuroimage.
de Chastelaine, M., Mattson, J.T., Wang, T.H., Donley, B.E., & Rugg, M.D. (2014). Sensitivity of negative subsequent memory and task-negative effects to age and associative memory performance. Brain Research.
de Chastelaine, M., & Rugg, M.D. (2014). The relationship between task-related and subsequent memory effects. Human Brain Mapping, 35(8), 3687-700.
Wong, J.X., de Chastelaine, M., & Rugg, M.D. (2013). Comparison of the neural correlates of encoding item-item and item-context associations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 436.
Mattson, J.T., Wang, T.H., de Chastelaine, M., & Rugg, M.D. (2013). Effects of Age on Negative Subsequent Memory Effects Associated with the Encoding of item and Item-Context Information. Cerebral Cortex, 24(12), 3322-33.
Gottlieb, L.J., Wong, J., de Chastelaine, M., & Rugg, M.D. (2012). Neural correlates of the encoding of multimodal contextual features. Learning and Memory, 19(12), 605-14.
Wang, T.H., de Chastelaine, M., Minton, B., & Rugg, M.D. (2012). Effects of age on the neural correlates of familiarity as indexed by ERPs. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(5), 1055-68.
de Chastelaine, M., Wang, T.H., Minton, B., Muftuler, L.T., & Rugg, M.D. (2011). The effects of age, memory performance, and callosal integrity on the neural correlates of successful associative encoding. Cerebral Cortex, 21(9), 2166-76.
de Chastelaine, M., & Rugg, M.D. (in prep). The effects of aging on the neural correlates of retrieval orientation and selective episodic retrieval.
Friedman, D., de Chastelaine, M., Nessler, D., & Malcolm, B. (2010). Changes in familiarity and recollection across the lifespan: an ERP perspective. Brain Research, 1310, 124-41.
de Chastelaine, M., Friedman, D., Cycowicz, Y.M. & Horton, C. (2009). Effects of multiple study-test repetitions on the neural correlates of recognition memory: ERPs dissociate remembering and knowing. Psychophysiology, 46(1), 86-99.
de Chastelaine, M., Friedman, D., & Cycowicz, Y.M. (2007). The development of control processes supporting source memory discrimination as revealed by event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(8), 1286-301.
Sanders, G., Sjodin, M., & de Chastelaine, M. (2002). On the elusive nature of sex differences in cognition: Hormonal influences contributing to within-sex variation. Archives of Sexual Behaviour, 31(1), 145-152.
Conference Presentations
de Chastelaine, M., & Rugg, M.D. (2011). Dissociation of prestimulus subsequent memory effects by study task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Suppl., 186.
de Chastelaine, M., & Rugg, M.D. (2010). The relationship between negative subsequent memory effects and task-induced deactivations. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
de Chastelaine, M. & Rugg, M.D. (2009). The effects of aging on the neural correlates of retrieval orientation and selective episodic retrieval. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL. >
de Chastelaine, M., Wang, T.H., Minton, B.R., Park, H., Muftuler, L.T. & Rugg, M.D. (2009). Effects of age, memory function and corpus callosum integrity on the neural correlates of successful associative memory encoding. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Suppl., 129.
de Chastelaine, M., Friedman, Cycowicz, Y.M., Horton, C. & Malcolm, B. (2007). The maturation of familiarity and recollection in episodic memory: An ERP developmental approach. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Suppl., 240.
de Chastelaine, M., Friedman, D. & Cycowicz, Y.M. (2006). ERP evidence for the development of executive processes mediating source discrimination in a recognition exclusion task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Suppl., 234.
de Chastelaine, M. & Rugg, M.D. (2004). Recall-to-reject and contextual discrimination : Electrophysiological correlates of the strategic use of (non)-recollection in exclusion tasks. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Suppl., 145.
de Chastelaine, M. & Rugg, M.D. (2003). Electrophysiological correlates of the employment of different retrieval strategies in a recognition exclusion task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Suppl., 75.
Awards/Grant Support
Wellcome Prize Studentship
Graduate School Student Conference Fund, University College London
Professional Membership
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Society for Neuroscience


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Google enabling Play Store installs from within search results
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Based on a one-page story by Ambrose Bierce, the difficulty of crossing a field is a joint collaboration in musical theater between composer David Lang and playwright Mac Wellman that recounts, in the words of a recent New York Times performance review, "a strange disappearance and what the neighbors have to say about it."
Mixing arias with spoken text and emotional melodies with tense drama, the story takes place in 1854 near Selma, Alabama, where a planter named Williamson has vanished without a trace while crossing a field. The original production was staged in March 2002 at the Theater Artaud in San Francisco, starring Julia Migenes as the wife of Williamson, and Tony-award winning singer Anika Noni Rose as the leader of the slave chorus, with music performed onstage by the Kronos Quartet.
This recording of the difficulty of crossing a field was tracked and produced by Lawson White, in partnership with Beth Morrison Projects, and features the Harlem String Quartet and an A-list of of New York City's established and emerging talent in opera and theater, including Beverly O'Regan Thiele, Laquita Mitchell and Jay O. Sanders.
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College grads, take heart: You're entering best job market in years
Originally Posted: May 24, 2016
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, the denizens of Southern Methodist University's campus seemed to move at a leisurely pace.
A few cyclists clicked along the pathways and the stately brick buildings, with their bright white colonnades, were quiet. Commencement had taken place a few days earlier.
But for Regina James, the busy season was getting into full swing.
"There are still students who are in transition. They're either waiting to hear back about offers — there's a little anxiousness there — or they're students that maybe just didn't get around to the search, so they're starting to reach out and say, 'I don't have anything yet,'" she said. "Those students, we'll be helping throughout the summer."
James is the associate director for employer relations at SMU's Hegi career center.
Experts say newly-minted college graduates in the Dallas area are entering one of the best job markets they've seen. But James said that's no excuse to slack off in the hunt.
"We encourage students to have multiple internships for a number of reasons," she said. "You've got to think about it as, not only are you competing against your peers here, you're competing against peers from other institutions in the area, you're competing against institutions nationally [whose students] may desire to live in the Dallas area."
According to a report by the firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas, 1.8 million Americans with four-year degrees are expected to enter the workforce this year, where they'll be greeted by the best job market for college graduates in several years.
The report cites the fact that the nation has seen almost 70 months of job gains, meaning that 14 million workers have been added to payrolls across the country. Meanwhile, Baby Boomers are retiring.
A National Association of Colleges and Employers survey found that companies are slated to hire 5.2 percent more new graduates than a year ago.
And, the report says, 59 metro areas have unemployment rates below 4.0 percent.
All of those factors add up to a demand for workers who are ready to start their careers.
In Dallas-Fort Worth — one of those metro areas with a low unemployment rate — there's extra momentum, said Bud Weinstein, an economist and associate director of the Maguire Energy Institute at SMU's Cox School of Business.
The region's economy is more diverse than it's ever been. And more companies are relocating or expanding in North Texas — in part because they're attracted by the area's talent pool.
"Dallas-Fort Worth probably has the strongest job market in the nation among large metropolitan areas — maybe not in absolute numbers, but certainly in percentage terms," Weinstein said. "I think the job market has never looked better, particularly for college graduates."
Michael Carroll, director of UNT's Economics Research Group, added that although energy and manufacturing jobs across the state are hurting, "we're fairly insulated from that" in North Texas.
A flood of migration into the state, Carroll said, has also helped keep wages at a manageable level and competition for workers from scaring off new jobs.
"I think it's a real positive with all the companies moving in," he said.
Higher education institutions around the region say they're bullish on the possibilities for their graduates — whether they're armed with a bachelor's degree or trade certification.
"I cannot even tell you — we're tripping over jobs," said Dawn Gomez, career services coordinator at the Dallas County Community College District's Northlake College in Irving.
The hard part, she said, is connecting students with the right employer in an age when job hunters have countless online resources.
"Soft skills, communication, critical thinking, teamwork — employers want those that can pull it all together in a composed, succinct package," Gomez said.
For Morgan Slottje, who graduated from SMU in December, settling on a career path wasn't easy.
As an undergraduate, she said with a chuckle, she changed majors "at least 10 times."
Throughout college, she also test drove various jobs through internships: She worked on Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, she worked in marketing.
When the time came to focus on the job search, Slottje, 23, applied to "hundreds" of jobs she said sounded interesting, from advertising to financial analysis. She considered getting a master's degree in statistics.
In the end, Slottje said she went to a Deloitte presentation and felt a strong sense that its values aligned with hers: An emphasis on continuing to learn and grow.
"I picked a company where their values really align with mine," she said. "That's important with the job search — I want a career. I want to love what I'm doing."
And although Slottje said she was open to moving to another city, she preferred to stay in Dallas, close to her parents and where living costs are more manageable than in New York, where she went to school for 2 and a half years before switching to SMU.
"I'd rather be in a city like Dallas when I'm starting a career," she said. "I'm versed in tech, but when I was interviewing [with a company in the] Bay Area, I was thinking, 'No matter what I'm getting paid, I'm going to be so poor.'"
She'll be starting a job here, in business technology consulting at Deloitte in July.
Reggie Davis, a 21-year-old University of North Texas logistics student, won't graduate until next year.
He said he's optimistic about his job prospects, particularly in logistics. In D-FW, information technology and other "knowledge" jobs that require college degrees are in high demand, particularly given the breadth of the region's transportation industry.
His father, too, works in logistics, meaning he's had exposure to the jobs for years.
Nevertheless, Davis said he's not cruising to graduation day.
For one thing, UNT's logistics program requires that students intern before they graduate, so he'll be working at Schneider Logistics this summer.
Davis is also participating in the school's professional leadership program, which aims to prep students for business leadership with access to mentors and professional development opportunities.
He said that although he's been around supply chain and logistics work — it's what his dad does, too — he sees the internship as both a way to get an edge and to test out which specific type of job he might like best.
"If I end up doing well in the internship and enjoying it, I would be glad to consider a full-time position or transition to being a full-time employee," he said. "But I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket." READ MORE
Congratulations to Robyn Ann Langley, the first SMU Jewish Studies minor
Congratulations to Robyn Ann Langley, the first Jewish Studies minor. She was recently honored at a reception on Friday, May 13th hosted by the SMU Jewish Studies program and faculty advisor, Shira Lander. Robyn is a Fashion Media major in the Meadows School of the Arts and triple minor in Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, both housed in Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, and Art.
Robyn was born in Miami, FL and moved to Boca Raton when she was just four years old. She was enrolled in preschool at the Jewish Community Center and has continued her involvement in the community ever since. She attended Hebrew school at Congregation B'nai Israel and was confirmed in 10th grade. She continued working at B'nai Israel as a Madricha (teacher's assistant) and was part of the synagogue's Senior Youth Group (BISY, a National Federation of Temple Youth affiliate). She has been involved with many Jewish organizations, such as Ruth Rales Jewish Family Services, JAFCO-Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options, and the Otzar Program for Special Needs. She most enjoyed working as the lead art and design volunteer for the Otzar Special Needs Sunday school.
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SMU's May 14 Commencement celebrates academic achievement
Originally Posted: May 3, 2016
SMU will celebrate the academic accomplishments of more than 2,500 students at its 101st annual Commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 14, in Moody Coliseum.
Guests are urged to arrive early as seating in the coliseum is limited to four guests per student. Additional seating will be available for a simulcast of the event at Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports, Crum Auditorium and McFarlin Auditorium. The ceremony also will be broadcast outside Moody Coliseum on Bolin Plaza, and there will be a live webcast of the ceremony at http://www.smu.edu/live.
Associate dean for General Education addresses questions about UC-2016
Originally Posted: April 16, 2016
By: Peter Moore, associate dean, General Education
Let me take a moment to address the issues Noah Bartos raised in his editorial regarding UC-2016.
Noah is rightly concerned about the potential headaches various groups will face regarding two very similar curricula (UC-2012 and UC-2016). We are too. He notes the increase in paperwork. That comes in three forms: 1) course proposals that faculty must write; 2) assessment; and 3) student petitions.
He is right in pointing out that in the near-term faculty will have some additional work to do. A significant portion of that has already been completed this spring and I hope that most of the rest will be finished by December. There is a sense of fatigue, but this is offset to some extent by the improvements he notes in the structure which allow for new opportunities for participation. Regarding assessment, my expectation is that this will actually decrease initially (while eventually returning to the current level).
My biggest concern is with student petitions that will arise through confusion between the two curricula. Noah notes this problem as well regarding the mixture of requirements in the same course. This mixture does not involve Proficiencies and Experiences which are identical in both curricula. We are aware of the problem regarding pillars (UC-2012) and breadth and depth (UC-2016) and will be working to mitigate the headaches that are bound to result.
Noah also raises concerns with the new STEM requirements which he believes have the potential to unduly impact Meadows' students. With regard to the lab-based portion (PAS under UC-2012) of this requirement the revision in UC-2016 is closer to the original intent of the UC adopted in 2010, that students complete two lab-based courses. The TM requirement, however, should not be an additional burden for most Meadows' students who will be able to complete it in the major (e.g., Theater Lighting).
Noah notes the advantages from the simplified Second Language requirement which should prove beneficial across all majors. The changes in UC-2016 are designed to lessen the need for double-counting pillar courses by opening up courses in the major.
For example, I expect Cox majors to benefit when ITOM 3306 (a required course for all Cox students) satisfies the TM requirement. In this case the number of UC requirements met in the Cox major will increase from two to three. The modifications introduced in UC-2012 were designed to address high-credit majors and enhance students' ability to double major. Students should find the same advantages in UC-2016 along with a simplified structure.
Finally he argues that the language of the proposal does not provide an adequate description of content. The descriptions match the information provided in the original UC and are augmented by the Student Learning Outcomes. Together these do provide a good basis for determining what the new breadth and depth requirements are all about.
Nearly two years ago the University Curriculum Council responded to concerns about the original UC and introduced key modifications. Those modifications have helped the class of 2012 to graduate on time. However, the modifications led to some unintended consequences which UC-2016 addresses. We expect that our efforts this time around will be even more beneficial. READ MORE
Dedman College students Aubrey Chapman, Carly Shuttlesworth, and Hannah Dudley discuss early graduation
SMU Daily Campus
Originally Posted: March 28, 2016
Aubrey Chapman, a junior double majoring in psychology and religious studies, is looking forward to graduating in May of 2016, a year earlier than her peers. After graduation, Chapman will immediately move on in her studies and get her master's degree in marriage and family therapy at seminary.
Even though Chapman has heard many say that college is the best four years of your life, she has no qualms about missing out on her senior year. She said she has enjoyed her time at SMU.
"Personally, graduating early is allowing me to step into seminary sooner to receive the education that is in complete alignment with what I want to do in the future," said Chapman. "I'm excited to be in an atmosphere that will strengthen and encourage me in my specific dreams and goals."
Chapman is one of many students graduating early. Michael Tumeo, the director of institutional research at SMU, said that of the students who started at SMU in 2009, 67 percent graduated in four years or less. That statistic includes students who graduated "on time," a semester early, or an entire year early. More specific data on those who have graduated in three years or three and a half years was not available.
Completing college a semester early is much more common across the nation and has even become a growing trend at some universities. According to a 2014 study at Duke University, there was a 30 percent increase in students graduating a semester early since 2010. READ MORE
Twentieth Nate and Ann Levine Lecture in Jewish Studies
Event date: April 5, 2016
Time: 7:30 pm
"Imagining a Vibrant Future for American Judaism." Dr. Arnold Eisen is one of the world's leading experts on American Judaism and the Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. He will discuss and debunk the recent forecasts of gloom and doom when it comes to the future of non-Orthodox Judaism in America, a future that — so it is said — mirrors the decline of mainstream Christian groups and the triumph of the "nones": individuals who turn away from any kind of religious belief or community. For more information: email@example.com


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